The choice of atomic power for electricity in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorGottschalk, Keith
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-20T14:00:20Z
dc.date.available2014-01-20T14:00:20Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionPaper presented at the South African Association of Political Studies regional colloquium, Unisa, Pretoria, 4 October 2013.
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa needs to both increase its electricity generation, and to incrementally transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The most cost-effective strategy would be a mix of imported hydropower, solar power, and imported gas, which is cleaner than burning local coal. A small but skilful atomic power lobby driven by a relatively few bureaucrats, engineers, and politicians has successfully dominated electricity decision-making over choice of generation options under both late apartheid and the first two decades of democracy. The Government’s tenacious determination to choose atomic power is price-inelastic, which indicates that political considerations, not economic, are the driver.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/956
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.rightsThis file may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the authors.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedfalse
dc.subjectAtomic poweren_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectElectricityen_US
dc.subjectPolicy choiceen_US
dc.titleThe choice of atomic power for electricity in South Africaen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US

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